circumflex
Sign in to saveThe circumflex () is a diacritic in the Latin and Greek scripts that is also used in the written forms of many languages and in various romanization and transcription schemes. It received its English name from "bent around"a translation of the ().
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The circumflex is a curved accent mark placed above letters in writing systems based on Latin and Greek alphabets, used in many modern languages as well as in systems for writing non-Latin scripts. It gets its name from a Latin phrase meaning "bent around," which describes the shape of the mark itself.
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28 sectionsContents
- Uses
- Diacritic on vowels
- Pitch
- Length
- Stress
- Vowel quality
- Nasality
- Other articulatory features
- Visual discrimination between homographs
- Diacritic on consonants
- Abbreviation, contraction, and disambiguation
- English
- French
- Italian
- Latin
- Norwegian
- Portuguese
- Welsh
- Mathematics
- Music
- Circumflex below
- <span class="anchor" id="Letters with circumflex"></span><span class="anchor" id="Circumflex in digital character sets"></span><span class="anchor" id="Combining circumflex accent"></span> Unicode
- <span class="anchor" id="Freestanding"></span> Freestanding circumflex
- Typing the circumflex accent
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
The circumflex () is a diacritic in the Latin and Greek scripts that is also used in the written forms of many languages and in various romanization and transcription schemes. It received its English name from "bent around"a translation of the ().
The circumflex in the Latin script is chevron-shaped (), while the Greek circumflex may be displayed either like a tilde () or like an inverted breve (). For the most commonly encountered uses of the accent in the Latin alphabet, precomposed characters are available.